CURRENT EVENTS. ....The arbitration trouble between England and our government has reached what may be called a "situation." By the correspondence just made public it appears that the controversy has had three phasis. England denied the right of this government to present claims for indirect national losses, on which this government still insists; then suggestions of modification were made by each party in turn, to be rejected by the other. Thirdly the proposi toin is made by England that a new rule of

international law be added to the three al

ready in existence in the form of a treaty to be ratified by both governments; the rule being to the effect that no claims for

indirect and consequential damages shall be made by either nation in any case of war, the rule being understood to apply to past as well as future circumstances. This is the point now submitted to the Senate and which with some modification of words will undoubtedly receive its assent.

Thus there is a way out of the slough of despond into which the treaty had fallen. This government does not retract the position that it had a right to make the claims since there was no international law on the subject. By this new presentation of the case we lose little, since nobody really expected the allowance of indirect claims by the tribunal; while if it is ratified we reach the decision of a point in international law which will be for the future peace of the two countries and of the world.

.... If we may believe the leading newspapers, and all the reliable contrabands who speak on the subject, Mr. Greeley's nomination to the Presidency is a disappointment. Mr. Greeley is undoubtedly a great man in his place. To borrow the phrase applied to Wendell Phillips, he has been a "sonorous political trumpet" sounding the call to many a battle for freedom and good government; but there are grave doubts of his likelihood to be a safe and practical head of our national affairs. Nobody, least of all those who know him, would doubt his good intentions; but as a good lady politician expresses it, "he is

not made up that way." Fortunately there appears at the present moment little probability that he will be brought to the test.

.... The English journals have just announced the marriage of perhaps the most extraordinary woman at this moment living in Europe.

This is Mabel Gray, the Queen of the Gipsies. She is a beautiful girl twenty-four or twenty-five years of age, and is the hereditary queen of allthe gypsies in England, Ireland, Scotland, — and who can say how many other countries beside? She claims to be the direct descendant of the Pharaohs of Egypt, and, like them, she is a devout worshippers of Isis

and Osiris.

be despised. She reigns despotically, in The power of Mabel is something not to fact, over at least four thousand mendicant subjects-candidates for the prison and the halter-pickpockets, jugglers, highwaymen, thieving peddlers, and knaves of every description, who yield her the blindest, most implicit obedience. If the fancy should seize Mabel Gray for a little murder, her subjects would at once proceed to assasinate no matter whom, without question and without hesitation. With all her other dignities and powers Mabel is the most distinguished inheritor of the occult lore of the Egyptians in the United Kingdom. For fifty cents she will tell you your past history; for a dollar she will reveal to you your whole future.

The most remarkable event of her history is, however, her marriage. She has married a young man by the name of Middleton; he belongs to an old and excellent family and is possessed of great wealth, being the inheritor of a very extensive landed estate. What is to be the future of the sons of the Pharaohs and Gypsy Kings born of this marriage? We cannot tell being in ignorance of the terms of the marriage contract, and possessing no particle of that wonderful lore of Egypt which which distinguishes the royal race of Mabel. So much, however, is known. The weddingday was made famous by being a grand féte day for all the mendicants and mountebanks throughout the three kingdoms.